For police, protests are over but after-effects continue

The City Police are still feeling the after-effects of the two protests — one against the IPL and the other against Prime Minister Narendra Modi — on the Cauvery issue.

On Friday, Police Commissioner A.K. Viswanathan and Additional Commissioner of Police H.M. Jayaram visited film directors Mu. Kalanjium and Ramesh admitted at Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital after getting injured during the IPL protests.

Award-winning film director Vetrimaran and a few others were caught in the lathi-charge by the police when they took out a rally near Triplicane police station.

They were also being treated at the GH.

The police officers visited the two police constables injured during the IPL protests. Mr. Viswanathan inquired about their health and requested the doctors to take extra care. “The protesters who took out the rally for Cauvery are not our enemies. They were fighting for a cause. We had to resort to coercive measures to control the crowd when it out of hand,” said a police officer.

Strip-searched?

Meanwhile, the City Police are denying the allegation of a woman assistant director that the police strip-searched her under the pretext of checking at Vadapalani Metrorail station.

On Thursday morning, a handful of assistant directors including a few women wearing black dresses were stopped by police personnel from boarding a train. They were detained at a wedding hall and released in the evening.

After release, a woman assistant director alleged that the police had ordered a strip-search. But Vadapalani Inspector G. Chandru (law and order) said that it was a false allegation.

“They were detained on Thursday morning at 9 a.m. from the Vadapalani metro station. It was the women police who frisked her,” he said.

A senior police officer said, “We have enough video evidence that the woman complainant herself misbehaved.”